Community Adult Consultant Psychiatrist (West)

Overview

In this role you will lead and deliver adult community psychiatry within the West Mental Health & Wellness Team at Barking Community Hospital. You will balance autonomous clinical work with team leadership, ensuring high-quality care, risk management, and evidence-based practice. You will collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and drive service improvements within an established transformation program. This is a full-time replacement post offering scope to influence patient outcomes and care pathways in a large NHS trust.

Responsibilities

• Organise and prioritise own and team workload and allocate tasks
• deputise for the team manager and delegate to medical staff
• adhere to Trust protocols and ensure accurate documentation for audits
• manage risk at team level including incident reporting and updating risk registers
• act as a registered clinician accountable for unsupervised actions
• maintain GMC licence and keep professional knowledge current
• assess and develop care plans for complex patient needs across chronic, acute, and palliative care within competence
• initiate referrals to other health professionals and agencies
• inform and educate patients and relatives to promote dignity, independence and quality of life
• ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature and peer review

Key requirements

• GMC registration with licence to practise
• Mastery in management of a broad range of mental disorders
• At least 4 years of postgraduate training (or equivalent) with at least 2 years in relevant specialty
• Experience with patients from diverse cultural backgrounds; working with interpreters and translators
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams
• Desirable: General medicine experience
• Desirable: Section 12 approval or eligibility; postgraduate qualification in psychiatry

• multidisciplinary collaboration
• effective communication with patients and relatives
• cultural sensitivity
• clinical governance and audit
• care planning for complex cases
• risk assessment and management

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